Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 4

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 * 1265 – Second Barons' War: Royal troops led by Prince Edward defeated baronial forces under Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham in Worcestershire, England.
 * 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: A combined Anglo-Dutch fleet under the command of George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles captured Gibraltar (pictured) from Spain.


 * 1783 – Mount Asama in Japan began a climactic eruption, which exacerbated the Great Tenmei famine and led to thousands of deaths.
 * 1791 – The signing of the Treaty of Sistova brought an end to the Austro-Turkish War.
 * 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte (depicted), the French Army of Italy decisively defeated Austrian forces led by Peter Vitus von Quosdanovich at the Battle of Lonato.
 * 1830 – American surveyor James Thompson produced the first plat of Chicago for the Illinois and Michigan Canal Commissioners.
 * 1914 – World War I: Adhering to the terms of the Treaty of London, the United Kingdom declared war on Germany in response to the latter's invasion of Belgium.
 * 1953 – Alfred C. Glassell Jr. caught a black marlin (pictured) off the coast of Peru weighing 1560 lb, setting the record for the largest bony fish caught by hand.
 * 1964 – Vietnam War: The National Security Agency falsely claimed that a U.S. Navy destroyer was attacked a second time by North Vietnamese vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin, leading Congress to authorize the use of military force.
 * 1991 – An explosion on the Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos ruptured its hull, causing it to sink off the east coast of South Africa, with all 571 people on board rescued.
 * 1993 – Yōhei Kōno, Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan, issued a formal apology for forcing women into sexual slavery during World War II.
 * 1995 – Yugoslav Wars: The Croatian Army initiated Operation Storm, the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence and the largest European land battle since the Second World War.
 * 1997 – French supercentenarian Jeanne Calment died at the age of 122 years, 164 days, with the longest confirmed human lifespan in history.
 * 2006 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Seventeen employees of the French nongovernmental organization ACF International were massacred in Muttur.
 * 2007 – An airport police officer discovered a suitcase containing approximately US$800,000 as it passed through security at Jorge Newbery Airfield in Buenos Aires, sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina.
 * 2020 – A large explosion of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in Lebanon killed 218 people and caused US$15 billion in damage.
 * Born/died: | Henry I of France |d|1060| Peter de Montfort |d|1265| John Venn |b|1834| Harry Lauder |b|1870| Laura Knight |b|1877| Samuel J. Tilden |d|1886| Ray Farquharson |b|1897| Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother |b|1900| Osbert Lancaster |b|1908| Helen Thomas |b|1920| Maurice Richard |b|1921|George Nicol |d|1924| David Lange |b|1942 John Wark |b|1957| Meghan, Duchess of Sussex |b|1981| Jessica Mauboy |b|1989